July 24, 2007

With the help of the debate transcript, I've just added three paragraphs to the long live-blogging post from last night. Let me just highlight this part for discussion:

Finally, they are asked to look at the person to their left and say one thing they don't like about them. Most of them won't say anything bad, but Edwards snarks about Hillary's jacket: "I'm not sure about that coat." Which might seem cute, but might piss women off. Hillary comes back with: "Yes, John, it's a good thing we're ending soon." Which sounds like a wife telling her husband he's had too much to drink. But she's supposed to talk about Obama, so she says: "I admire and like very much Barack." I find it hard to believe a sentence that sounds like it was translated from a foreign language. But then, why should she like very much Barack? She'd like very much less Barack. Then Obama one-ups Edwards with "I actually like Hillary's jacket. I don't know what's wrong with it." Which could be read as a double insult. First, it puts down Edwards for knocking the lady's clothes. And second, it subtly implies that Edwards is feminine: Obama can't tell what is wrong with the jacket, because he's a man and doesn't know about fashion, not like some other men, who aren't manly enough.

To run for president you can't slip your guard. You're ready to talk about Iraq, health care, and China, then an innocuous (for a guy) comment turns into a fashion smackdown! Well, one thing you can say about Edwards' attempt at humanizing humor---it can't have been rehearsed. BTW, HRC should have said, "Nice hair, John."

I liked HRC's outfit. It distinguishes her from the drab male opponents, and it shows flair. A President needs flair. Sometimes the solutions to problems require flair. But the tangled syntax of her compliment is distinctly odd. Say it with an accent like Apu's from the Simpsons and it's hilarious.

Folks, I hate to break it to you, but John Edwards is a raging 'mo. This guy is a $3.00 bill just waiting for the ball to drop. He is miles ahead of that New Jersey governor-mutt, but frankly a lot more clever.

Everyone is so obsessed with Hillary's tits that they don't even notice that there are other areas to criticize. In rear-view shots you could see that the flair of that jacket made her butt look huge. Absolutely ginormous. That's what Edwards was getting at.

It is actually true that Hillary uses coats to make her look slimmer and wears pants because her ass and thighs are really, really nastily large. No man so fat would be elected President; the last one was Tubby Taft, and he was mocked mercilessly for it.

Obama nailed Edwards, that's true. It shows that he's quite diplomatic but tongue-in-cheek when he needs to be. I think that it's also 1) a light refusal to be drawn into mudslinging and 2) an indication that he makes people accountable for what they say. Points to him. :)